By Lawrence J. McQuillan Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is helping to bankroll a television-commercial campaign in favor of proposed soda taxes in...
San Francisco, CA – Call it torture baseball! The Giants had their streak of ten-consecutive postseason elimination games snapped in tonights 6-5 loss to the Cubs....
President Barack Obama presented awards last Thursday at the White House to two-dozen recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal, including...
The California Nurses Association (CAN) /National Nurses United has announced support for several initiatives on the California November ballot, including Proposition 63, to strengthen gun safety,...
Demonstrations continue in Charlotte, N.C., and protests have spread to Atlanta and elsewhere, sparked most recently by the police killing of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Okla.,...
By Britni Danielle, Ebony Gloria Naylor, a writer known for illuminating the stories of Black women, died of a heart attack on September 28 in the...
The public is invited to voice their concerns about human rights issues in their communities to the Marin County Human Rights Commission (HRC). The meeting...
San Francisco, CA – It was like “deja vu” all over again. The Giants faced another elimination game and their ace took the mound. But...
Three days before the opening of the first African-American Museum of History in Washington, D.C., a dedicated group of academics, students, friends and family gathered the...
In this era of global and social media, you can get a taste of what’s going on in every corner of the world. However, some...
